A Zenit-2SB rocket, carrying the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, stands at a launch pad of the Russian leased Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome early on November 9, 2011, just before its blast off toward Mars.

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A Zenit-2SB rocket, carrying the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, stands at a launch pad of the Russian leased Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome early on November 9, 2011, just before its blast off toward Mars.